The Great Recession rocked the foundation of every financial institution, including Johnson Bank. We were struggling, and it was happening under my watch.
I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
We need to tell the American public the truth. We need to let them know they're not the only ones struggling.
If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.
'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.